Objection – how are Independent senators treated? Are we to understand that this essentially relegates seniority to a tiebreaking factor? We might be able to clarify the wording in clause 6 regarding eligibility for available seats.
You can try alternative language for rule 6, but it feels like it’s prettt clear atm? Previous rules have restricted eligibility for any remaining members by assigning some seats to other members or parties, or perhaps by assigning seats to the party ahead of time in rules 2 and 4. The first unassigned member to swear in gets the lowest numbered seat that wouldn’t violate previous evaluation in any way.
Fair enough. Rule 6 scans better for me at least now that I'm not operating on five hours of sleep, so objection dropped there. Glad for the clarification though.
